00:00I think that when you go out and you're hours away from anything there's nothing
00:12around and and you can't hear a single noise other than the grains of sand
00:18moving and then when you look up you start to feel really in a sense
00:23insignificant that's really a different experience one that everyone should have
00:29the benefit of seeing my name is Benjamin Barakat and I'm an award-winning night sky photographer
00:38most people are living in cities and overpopulated places and there's a lot of beauty that you just
00:44don't see you know we're like clouded out in our vision astrophotography is the process of
00:52going out and spending a night under the night sky and capturing it
00:59you know it's a huge difference than in daylight when you can see your subject
01:04weather can change circumstances can change
01:09you have to be prepared to adapt in order to achieve that image that you had in mind
01:16my goal has been looking at how can I integrate what I do with my family I feel like it's my
01:24duty to take them around the world to take them in the car and go hit the road and show them the
01:30stars and show them landscapes and show them who I am and the CRV with the dream pod concept is perfect for
01:38late nights out in the wilderness
01:40I see the world in a different way now I'm constantly seeing compositions in life
01:49things that look beautiful and just imagining just like being a child again
01:53when I look out there it's kind of like it's kind of like my religion like looking out to the cosmos that is creation that is existence
02:10it's kind of like you're being robbed of that you know when you live in the city and so on
02:19anybody that's put out there I find it hard to believe that you won't be taken back to what is real
02:28you won't be given that feeling it's the place that that I find true peace you know
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